How these menacing towers of raw concrete that just a few short years ago were considered the ugliest buildings in the world ...

LJ Roberts, "In the Fantasy I Am Already There" (2025) on view in Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture at the Center for Architecture (all photos Alexis Clements ...

Boston City Hall, built in 1962, is a brilliant example of Brutalist architecture. getty. Brutalism is possibly the most-maligned architectural style of all.

Why architects appreciate brutalism, even if you don't Many people think brutalist architecture is ugly. Architects make a case for why the buildings shouldn’t be torn down.

In 2022, a group of German museums, non-profits, and trade magazines came together to launch #SOSBrutalism, a campaign to save Brutalist architecture around the world from demolition. Where others ...

But architecture professor Mark Pasnik says the structures were built with a much deeper meaning in mind. "People think of them as communistic or as alienating," says Pasnik, who came to brutalism ...

Meant to evoke a quiet country lifestyle and the picturesque cottages of old England, Tudor Revival architecture — after coming to the U.S. more than a century ago — somehow also came to ...

Call them monuments, foreign elements, eyesores — Brutalist buildings have become another battleground in President Trump’s culture war.